Atomizer.



No. 788,757. PATENTED MAY 2,1905.

H. 0. J. DEEKS.

ATOMIZER.

APPLIUATION FILED 1117, 190s.

WITNESSES, I INVENTOR UNITED STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

I-IIRAM O. J. DEEKS, OF PATERSON, NEiV JERSEY.

ATOMIZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 788,757, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed March 17, 1903. Serial No. 148,141.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM (J. J. DEEKS, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of tool or atomizer for use in this art and adapted especially for producing soft and uniform effects. The tool or atomizer is fitted for many other purposes for which a sprayer or atomizer is employed. It is simple in construction and inexpensive. It is designed to eject a finely-divided spray for any purpose where an ordinary atomizer does not produce sufliciently delicate results.

A featurdof the invention consists in the control of the amount of delivery of the pigment or other material in solution or carried in the liquid which is the source of supply.

In the use of atomizers it is often important to change the strength of the spray delivered-that is to say, the amount of the pigmentor other material carried or ejected with the spray-and this I accomplish by simple means, insuring the accurate control desired.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved device.

Fig. 2 is a partial horizontal section through the inlet and outlet tubes of the flask and the casting cl, connected to the cap 6. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4 is asectional view corresponding to Fig. 2 and illustrating a modification.

In the drawings, a is aflask of substantially cylindrical form, into which the cap 5 is screwed or secured in any convenient manner.

0 is the cover. From the cap 6 the frame or casting d extends, Figs. 1 and 2. Into the casting (Z is screwed the pipe c, whose outer end is inserted in the rubber tube f, leading to the source of supply of the fluid under pressure. In the casting cl is the port 9, leading from the pipe 6 to the vent it into the upper part of the vessel. The spring-pressed valve i controls the passage from pipe 0 through vent it to the vessel, as indicated best in Fig.

2, which shows the valve-stem 7' terminating in the button k. The removable screw-cap l retains the spring m against the valve to seat the same, except when finger-pressure on the button Z: unseats itand opens the passage from pipe 0 into the vessel. From the vent 71. extends the port a, which is connected to the curved tube 0, as shown in Figs. 1 and The tube 7.) extends upward from near the bottom of the vessel and terminates just below and in front of vent 7b, as best shown in Fig. .1. It is carried by the bracket 1 sccured to the side of the vessel, as indicated. The tube 1- projects from the vessel substantially opposite the vent h, terminating in the reduced orifice s, which is immediately below and in the rear of the orifice I; of the tube 0. The pin it extends through the cover 0 and carries at its lower end the fan a normally out of the path between vent l1, and tube 0', but adapted to be turned by the handle 10 into said path, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The modification illustrated in Fig. 4 shows the sleeve :1: upon the inner threaded portion of tube '1' and adapted to be shifted thereon to varied positions toward or away from vent it, as indicated by dotted lines inFig. 4.

My invention is to be used in the following manner: First removing the cap 0, I partially fill the flask a with the liquid which is intended to be delivered as a spray. The cap a is then replaced. I then admit the fluid-pressu re to tube 6 by opening a valve (not shown) from the source of supply. The pressure of the finger upon button it will unseat valve 1 against the resiliency of spring on, allowing the fluid under pressure to escape through vent 71. into the flask and through port a and tube 0 out by orifice t. The blast passing over the top of tube 10 will draw up the liquid by suction and eject it in the form of a spray, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4. So much of the spray as is directed toward the open end of tube r will enter the same and be ejected therefrom at orifice s, meeting the blast from tube 0, which will serve to again subdivide the spray and mix it thoroughly with the blast of fluid. That part of the spray within the vessel which does not enter tube 1- will strike against the side of the vessel and slip back to the bottom of the vessel. To decrease the amount of the spray which is delivered to the tube 9, the fan u may be turned on its pin a as much as desired into the path between the vent h and the inner Orifice of tube 9, cutting off the direct stream of the spray and the amount thereof deliveredthat is to say, the portion or percentage of the spray which is received into tube 1* may be varied at the will of the operator. The same object is accomplished by the employment of the modification shown in Fig. 4. The sleeve it when in its outermost position serves to receive substantially the entire spray ejected from the tube p. By retiring the sleeve m to its inner position the amount of the spray received by the tube 7 may be accurately controlled. "Of course my device may be made without the fan a; or the sleeve in when it will not be useful to have the control of the delivery of the spray as above explained.

The inner orifice of the tube 9' would then be fixed in advance at a selected distance from the vent It to give the results desired. It will be seen that in addition to delivering only a portion of the first spraying within the vessel as the ultimate spray I subject the liquid to the influence first of one blast and then in its subdivided and atomized form to the influence of the second blast in order to obtain the deli-- cate results desired.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a suitable receptacle, an atomizing device discharging into said receptacle and taking its supply of the substance to be atomized from the same, a dischargetube leading from said receptacle, and a blasttube discharging at the outlet of said discharge-tube, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a suitable receptacle, an atomizing device discharging into said receptacle and taking its supply of the substance to be atomized from the same, a dischargetube leading from said receptacle and having one end in the line of discharge from said atomizing device, and ablast-tube discharging at the outlet of said discharge-tube, substantially as described.

3. In an atomizer, a blast-tube adapted to deliver a blast to subdivide liquid and eject it in the form of a spray, a second tube adapted to receive only a portion of said spray and an auxiliary blast-tube at the outer end of the second tube adapted to subject the spray ejected therefrom to a second subdivision.

4. In an atomizer, a spraying device, a tube adapted -to receive the spray and deliver it to an auxiliary spraying device, and means whereby the portion of the primary spray received by said tube and delivered for the auxiliary spraying may be regulated by the operator.

5. In an atomizer,aprimary sprayer,an aux iliary sprayer, means for conveying a portion of the material from the primary sprayer to the auxiliary sprayer, and means for controlling the portion of the material so conveyed .from the primary sprayer to the auxiliary sprayer.

6. In an atomizer, a primary sprayer, delivering a portion of a spray to an auxiliary sprayer and means for controlling the portion delivered from the primary sprayer to the auxiliary sprayer.

7. In an atomizer, a primary sprayer, for delivering a spray to an auxiliary sprayer and ablade or fan adapted to be interposed in the path between the primary sprayer and the auxiliary sprayer to regulate the delivery of material from the primary sprayer to the auxiliary sprayer.

8. In an atomizing device, a primary sprayer, an auxiliary sprayer and means whereby the spray ejected from the primary sprayer is divided so that only a portion thereoi is led to and subjected to the influence of the auxiliary sprayer.

9. In an atomizer, a primary sprayer and an auxiliary sprayer, a receiver adapted to convey a portion only of the spray ejected by the primary sprayer to the auxiliary sprayer.

10. In an atomizer, a primary sprayer, an auxiliary sprayer and means whereby the product of the primary sprayer is divided, a portion thereof being led to the auxiliary sprayer and the remainder returned to the source of supply.

11. In an atomizing device, a primary sprayer discharging into a closed chamber, an out-let from said chamber adapted to receive a portion only of the primary spray, and an auxiliary blast outside the chamber adapted to subdivide the product of the primary sprayer which escapes from said outlet.

12. In an atomizer, a primary sprayer, an auxiliary sprayer, and adjustable means controlling the portion of material transferred from the primary sprayer to the auxiliary sprayer.

13. In an atomizer, a primary sprayer, an auxiliary sprayer, means for transferring the product of the primary sprayer to the auxiliary sprayer and adjustable means whereby a selected portion of the product of the primary sprayer is led to the secondary sprayer and the remainder allowed to return to the source of supply.

14:. In an atomizer, a primary sprayer, an auxiliary sprayer and adjustable means adapted to be interposed in the path from the primary to the secondary sprayer to regulate the amount of material delivered from the primary sprayer to the secondary sprayer.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 14th day of March, A. D. 1903.

HIRAM C. J. DEEKS.

\Vitnesses:

JOSEPH A. S rnrson, MINNIE KAUFFMAN. 

